Westerdam cruise 2-15-14  We booked this cruise as a get away from winter, relax and enjoy a warmer climate for a week trip. If you are familiar with C S Lewis’ Narnia series, we feel like this has been an endless winter in Pennsylvania – “Always winter and never Christmas.”

Pre-cruise:

All week we were nervous – would we make the ship or not? A major winter storm hit our area on Thursday the 13th. All flights heading South on the 13th and the morning of the 14th were canceled. Being Presidents day weekend, all flights were completely booked – so if your flight was canceled you would pretty much be out of luck. We had a 5:25 PM flight on the 14th and it left Philadelphia essentially “On time.” Read more